Events that changed the world

Straight from the National Archives, Topic Entertainment presents a four-hour collection of audio footage that forever changed the course of American history. Here, listeners are treated to a plethora of historic moments, including interviews and news reports concerning the JFK assassination, the Hi...

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Corporate Author: United States. National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Audiobooks Audiobook (CD)
Language:English
Published: Renton, WA : Topics Entertainment, 2008.
Series:History in words from the National Archives
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Table of Contents:
  • CD 1. Thomas Alva Edison on the Future of Electricity (1908). "Remarks to the Peary Arctic Club on Discovery of the North Pole (1909). Eyewitness Account of the Sinking of the H.M.S. Titanic (1935). My Spiritual Message (1925). First Official Transatlantic Phone Conversation (1927). Amelia Earhart's Speech "My Belief in Age of Flight" (1935). Eyewitness Account of the Hindenburg Disaster (1937).
  • CD 2. The Launch of Sputnik (1957). First Primates in Space (1959). Live Polio Vaccine Developed (1959). Is There Life on Other Worlds? (1960). President John F. Kennedy's Address on Moon Exploration (1962).
  • CD 3. Lady Bird Johnson's Account of the Kennedy Assassination (1963). Story of Interferon (1965). Glenn Seaborg on the 25th Anniversary of the Discovery of Plutonium (1966).
  • CD 4. LBJ Addresses the Nation after the Shooting of Robert Kennedy(1968). Jim Lovell's Description from Apollo 8 of the "Vast Loneliness of the Moon" (1968). "One Small Step" Apollo 11 Landing on the Moon (1969). Apollo 13 - "Houston, We Have a Problem" (1970). Address to the Nation on the Challenger Disaster (1986).